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Youth sports for the week ending May 18

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May 18th, 2008 Scrappers vs. Rivercats

The Dogs vs. The Cats! The Season finally found both teams hitting and fielding at there finest. Bryce Bernales back after
an injury, and Jack Anderson field anything the cats hit to them. Elise Larson and Daniel Daugbjerg kept the
cats moving in the field with the quick hits. The Scrappers loaded the bases with hits by John Walsh, Parker Leabo, Jack Orlandi
and the brother team of Tyler and Jake Nettelman. The final at bat Kyle Ramser hit the home run to clear the bases!

Records fall in Sea Serpents win over Novato Riptides
The Scott Valley Sea Serpents of Mill Valley took care of business in their home pool Saturday morning, beating the Novato Riptides by a score of 366 to 171. Both teams came to swim, but it was the performances of 10-year-old Sasha Petrova and 12-year-old Mathew Jackett that really created a buzz on the pool deck.
Petrova broke her own team record in the 50 yard freestyle by almost a full second, covering the course in 28.19. She just missed breaking the five-year-old pool record by one-one hundredth of a second. She then went on to break the pool and team records in the 50 yard backstroke with a time of 33.58 and the team record in the 100 yard individual medley with a time of 1:15.42. Petrova also holds the Sea Serpent records for the eight-and-under age group in the 50 yard freestyle and backstroke.
Jackett started the Marin Swim League season strong shattering an 11-year-old pool record and 14-yeard old team record with a time of 29.88 in the 50 yard backstroke. Later in the meet, he broke the Scott Valley pool record in the 100 yard individual medley with a time of 1:06.33, taking over two seconds off his seed time.

The Sleepy Hollow Relay Team for the 8&under Medley Relay beat the SRHS Pool Records held since 1995 by another SH team with a time of 1:15:12
Andy Suski of SHST got a pool record in Boys 11-12 Backstroke with a time of :31.32, beating a pool record held by A Petruzzella of RR since 1995 of :32.25
Dominique Suro of SHST got a pool record in Girls 8&un IM with a time of 1:29.46, beating a pool record held by Quinn Galli of SHST since 2005 of 1:33.29

The San Rafael High School Mountain Bike Team wrapped up its season by winning the Division I State Championships in Lake County last Sunday.

Sophomore Will Curtis finished third in the highly-competitive Varsity race to help lead the Bulldogs to victory in their inaugural season in Division 1. The NorCal varsity riders are racing at an international level with at least one, possibly two of the top racers representing the United States at the World championships in Italy this summer. With the high school season over, Curtis will now focus on the National Championships in Vermont.

JV riders Clayton Herrick and Niko Kaplanis provided the emotional highlight of the day when they crossed the finish line in first place simultaneously, their hands clasped high in a sign of unity and mutual respect. Having worked together the entire season, Herrick waited for momentarily for Kaplanis at line, knowing he was handing the yellow leader’s jersey over to his teammate. Gavin Albertoli finished 4th for the season, giving San Rafael 3 of the top 4 JV spots.

San Rafael dominated Sophomore Boys as well. Recent addition Quin Brow took first place in the final race. Bart Carrade came in second, keeping the overall leader’ jersey for the season. Skyler Nilsen finished in the top ten, in 6th.

In Sophomore girls, Lauren Freudman took fourth place in the final race with Mary Brosnan close behind in fifth. Brosnan nearly rode straight to her car as she rushed her cello to the Marin Symphony Youth Orchestra Spring Concert just hours later.

The Mission City Maulers 15u basketball team captured there 3rd championship this weekend in San Francisco, “Got Game” tournament.The Maulers defeated previously unbeaten Central Valley Cagers ,down by 12 points 36-24. The Maulers used a team effort, clutch shots and key free throws to defeat the Cagers 49-45. Stuart Wesonga manned the paint again, blocking shots and making key offensive rebounds .Sam Brown hit two key baskets and Diego Camarillo completed the comeback with a three pointer . Bobby Connor and Robbie Bobay led the come back making key steals .Yet it was the late game free throw shooting of Sterling Reed which helped clinch the champonship.

San Rafael Little League-Minors
May 13–The Indians defeated the first-place Red Sox 7-6 when Hayden Wellbeloved hit a walk-off single to center field to score Carson Scheidt in the bottom of the 6th inning. Wellbeloved also scored 2 runs and was a perfect 3-3 in hitting. Jack Orofino hit 2 doubles and pitched 3 shut-out innings to close down the usually high-scoring Red Sox.

Over the weekend of May 17-18 the Saint Mark’s Knights made a great showing at the 33rd Annual Northern California Chess Championships, held at the San Jose Convention Center with about 1,100 players competing.

The Saint Mark’s Elementary Junior Varsity team took the lead in the first round and never gave it up, winning convincingly by 2.5 points over Weibel School of Fremont. Leading the way for the Knights was fourth grader Audrey Zhao, who finished in eighth place with a score of 5-1. The other top scorers, all with 4-2 records, were Sean Grant (24th place), Ming Bacharach (25th place), Angelo Zorn (15th place), and Sophia Leswing (23rd place). Fourth grader Douglas Vetter won a medal for Best Player Under 700.

Levi Hall made a daring dash to the plate, and slid home with the winning run, giving the REDS a come from behind 8-7 win over the Padres. Levi also drove in two runs for the REDS. Brian Dick contributed three hits for the REDS. Liam Aranson had two hits and two RBIs to lead the Padres offense. Chris West and Matt Potter had long doubles to help the Padres to their early lead. Ben Wernick pitch effectively into the fifth inning to maintain the Padres lead until the REDS rallied to take the victory.

REDS 12 CUBS 6

The REDS got off to an early 8-1 lead,but had to hold on to earn a 12-6 victory over the league leading CUBS. Jason Dick, Nick Borjian, Max Menzel,and Brian Dick all had two hits to lead the REDS batting resurgence. Max Menzel, Mitchell Ho,and Brian Dick had two RBIs for the REDS. On defense, REDS Centerfielder Ray Hengst made a fine running catch of Mark Nutting’s bid for extra bases,and Brian Dick made a sliding catch of a line drive off the bat of Hunter Stroope to end a CUBS rally. Mark Nutting, Ryan Schalch, and Kalvin Carr had two hits for the CUBS, with Carr driving in three runs.